Chris Horner

Chris Horner

Credentials

Background

Christopher C. Horner is a Senior Legal Fellow for the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (formerly American Tradition Institute), where he “provides strategic and legal counsel on cases involving Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filings and government transparency.” [14] Additionally, Horner serves as a senior fellow for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a Washington, DC-based think-tank. He is also the former director of litigation at the American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center (now the Energy and Environment Legal Institute).

Horner is a lawyer by training and regularly appears on television as a commentator on the issue of climate change.

Stance on Climate Change

“Given that the atmosphere inarguably shows no appreciable warming in the 25-year history of satellite and radiosonde measurements (initiated in response to the cooling panic), to assert that runaway global warming is as real as President Bush's re-election is an absurd proposition.” [2]

Key Quotes

“Pluto's warm-up is a reminder that no matter where you are climate happens. It always has, it always will – with or without SUVs. And it should remind us to continue taking with an ever-increasing grain of salt these claims that your car acts as a weather machine.” [3]

Key Deeds

June 30 - July 1, 2011

Horner spoke at the Heartland Institute's Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. [4] His presentation was titled “Crony Capitalism and the 'Green Jobs' Charade.”

DeSmogBlog found that 17 of the 43 sponsors of the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, including the Heartland Institute itself, have collectively received over $46 million from either Scaife Foundations, Koch Foundations, or ExxonMobil and its foundation.

Horner accusedNASA's chief climate scientist, James Hansen, of “doctor[ing] temperature data on two occasions in 2001 and once in 2007 in attempts to show an impending climate catastrophe.”

Horner stated that Hansen had “clearly abused his platform provided to him by the taxpayer, principally by the way he's been exposed of manipulating and revising data with the strange coincidence of him always found on the side of exaggerating the warming.” [5]

Horner spoke at the Heartland Institute's First International Conference on Climate Change. The purpose of this conference was reported to be to “generate international media attention” on global warming skepticism. [4]

Affiliations

Cooler Heads Coalition — Oversees petitions and litigation for the Cooler Heads Coalition in “environment and energy issues, international environmental treaties, and climate policy.” [8] Also listed as a “Contributor.” [9]

"Fossil-fuel companies have spent millions funding anti-global-warming think tanks, purposely creating a climate of doubt around the science. DeSmogBlog is the antidote to that obfuscation." ~ BRYAN WALSH, TIME MAGAZINE

Features

A California family is suing the state for failing to protect their children from fracking.

At issue are the state’s new fracking regulations, which went into effect on July 1. Rodrigo Romo, the named plaintiff in the suit, says the rules discriminate against Latino children, like his daughters, because they are far more likely to go to school or live near a fracked well.

“Everyday my daughters go to school, they fear for their health and safety because of how close the fracking wells are to their schools,” Romo said in a...